Landscape with Factory Chimney
To scale 31 x 27 in on the wall
Representative Hand-applied gesso embellishment
About the Artwork
Kandinsky completed this work in 1910, the pivotal year he began drafting Concerning the Spiritual in Art and produced his first fully abstract watercolor. Landscape with Factory Chimney occupies the charged threshold between his late Fauvist-inflected figurative work and the pure color-field paintings that would define his theoretical project. At the time he was living in Murnau, Bavaria, with Gabriele Münter, and the southern German landscape (its onion-domed churches, rolling hills, and vernacular architecture) fed the visual vocabulary he was simultaneously working to dissolve. The chimney is significant: Kandinsky was acutely aware of industrialization's psychological weight, and its blunt red vertical against the pastoral arc reads as a deliberate formal and thematic disruption. The work belongs to the broader Expressionist current he was shaping alongside the Der Blaue Reiter circle, where color was understood not as description but as emotional force. Today the painting is held in the Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection, where it has been cited as a crucial document of the moment European modernism crossed from representation into pure abstraction.
Product Specifications
- Finished size
- 31 x 27 in
- Frame
- Gold, premium resin, mitred
- Canvas
- Heavyweight Fredrix poly/cotton
- Finish
- Hand-applied gesso embellishment
- Inks
- Archival HP Latex, 100-year colorfastness
- Stretcher
- Solid poplar, kiln dried
- Hanging
- Wire and dust cover fitted
- Item
- 1880721
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